PLT Viewer

CadSoftTools understands and values your time and investments that you spend to simplify the way you perform the job
of viewing, converting and editing drawings,esp. when considering viewing of the drawings in HPGL file format with
PLT, HGL, SPL and other extensions. While creating the program the company was targeted on purchasers' responses.
CadSoftTools discovered a great shortage of good equipment in PLT viewing software among CAD software offering
services. PLT Viewer prevents you from sending back PLT files in case your old graphic viewer couldn't recognize or
open them. PLT Viewer is a leader when you decide to acquire good both in price and in quality software for viewing,
converting, printing and even editing HPGL files.

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PLT Viewer

View PLT files on PC

Print HPGL on laser or ink-jet printers

View files and plot only the necessary drawings or parts of drawings , which saves a lot of time and
paper

Managing Portions of Drawings:

Copying portions of drawings to the clipboard in raster (BMP) and vector (EMF) formats

Printing portions of drawings

Saving portions as separate files (DXF, PDF, BMP, etc)

Editing Drawings:

PLT Viewer allows editing of both standard CAD formats such as DWG and DXF and vector files: PLT,
SVG, CGM. The application provides all the professional editor tools and enables operations
supported by ‘heavy editors’, which are usually used for design work.

! Important: Clip Rectangle allows conversion of a selected part of the drawing

Batch Conversion and Batch Print

It is now much faster and easier to print or convert a large number of files into another format.
PLT Viewer supports simultaneous conversion and print in batch mode – with the same settings for all
files.

Quick Load and Scaling Big Black-and-White Raster Files:

In PLT Viewer we have applied our know-how concerning 1-bit (Black-and-white) raster formats
management. Huge 15-20 thousand pixel files can be loaded in less than one second. They are
immediately scaled – a feature that is very convenient with TIFF scanned drawings.

CAD File Management

A large number of settings for snapping to objects, used for both editing purposes and also for
measurement tools

Measuring distances on a drawing (including the scale factor setting)

3D viewing and editing

Viewing with six orthogonal projections and four isometric views

Automatic rotation of the loaded CAD file by a given angle

Managing layers

Colour and black-and-white modes for CAD files

Choosing background color

DWG/DXF/SVG/CGM arcs and circles can be drawn as smooth curves and saved as metafile arcs, and
ellipses as EMF, which allows scaling without loss in quality

Setting the quantity of line segments when drawing circles, arcs, ellipses and splines

Merging drawings into one file

The possibility of viewing a CAD files structure

Supporting SHX-fonts, including UNICODE and BIGFONTS.

File Search

Favorites and Explorer panels give the possibility for fast navigation of files. A thumbnails
sub-programme allows viewing of all files in a catalogue before they are opened, including DXF, PLT
and other files not managed by Windows or ordinary viewers. Due to the up-to-date tab-based document
structure, it it very quick to navigate files.

File Navigation

Dynamic scaling of the drawing with the help of the mouse-wheel, like in AutoCAD™. ‘Find text’ and
‘Find point’ quickly link to the necessary part of the drawing. If only the contour of a detail is
required in the drawing, it is possible to hide all texts and sizes in one mouse-click; it is not
necerssary to open layers and change their visibility.

Redline

Redline mode or commentaries to the drawing provide additional information that is ‘applied’ to the
drawing but does not change the basic file. All editing elements are at your disposal in this mode.
Commentaries and remarks, together with the basic file, can be printed or converted to another
format. A drawing can be supplied with many such commentaries. In addition, this mode allows the
path to be saved to the redline files containing the remarks, and the start of automatic loading.

Print

The print feature provides the user with a vast range of capabilities. Both a single file and a set
of files can be printed with predefined settings. The ‘Print preview’ dialog box contains a large
number of settings, for example DWG/DXF line width, color and layers, and nil width value. Printing
‘in tiles’ allows printing images on any number of sheets of any size with the necessary scale. For
example, large images (A0, A1 etc) can be divided into many small pages of different size for
subsequent pasting together into one big drawing. Any ‘tile’ can be printed independently.
Therefore, if one page seems defective (eg because of problems with the printer), it is possible to
re-print this page separately. As an alternative to printing the whole file, it is possible to print
a selected area (with the help of ‘Clip Rectangle’ that selects the required part) and print the
viewing frustum. High-quality prints can be mdae of color drawings using a black-and-white printer
without grey tones. There are a number of frames that can be inserted onto the printed page.

Languages

There is support for more than 30 languages, including English, German, French, Spanish, and Italian

This screenshot demonstrates Properties panel. It gives quick and
convenient access to entities' properties. It is very useful for editing
CAD files or working with Redline entities.

The screenshot demonstrates the usage of dynamic input while editing the drawing.

This screenshot demonstrates Thumbnails window.

This screenshot demonstrates the work of the tool 3D Orbit in the
2D Wireframe display mode.

This screenshot demonstrates the work of the tool 3D Orbit while viewing
three-dimensional models of drawings.

This screenshot demonstrates how Fragment allows managing the image.

This screenshot demonstrates the result of cooperation between Clip
Rectangle and Print Preview (see picture above).

This screenshot demonstrates using snap while working with the measure tools.

This screenshot demonstrates the usage of the function Set size as. If there are no
dimensional units on the drawing, some segment the size of which is set as the closest
to the real one is selected. The values of all the following measurements will be
calculated on the base of the entered value.

This screenshot demonstrates measuring of arbitrary
polyline.

This screenshot demonstrates measuring the area and perimeter with the help of the tool
Area.

This screenshot demonstrates adding markups in the Redline mode.

This screenshot demonstrates Batch dialog window.

This screenshot demonstrates Print Preview dialog for batch printing.

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What is the most important feature of ABViewer?

A combined viewer, editor and converter?

Support for PLT, HPGL, DWG, DXF, TIFF, SVG, CGM and other industry-standard
formats?

Printing of large formats (e.g. A1), on an A4 printer?

The versatility to perform all operations from design to engineering with related documentation?

An easy-to-use, fast, professional and powerful product?

The most important aspect of ABViewer is quality, quality and again quality!